Short Fiction · Character
Gottfried Plattner
A mild schoolmaster whose quiet life is upended by an inexplicable dislocation, forcing him to reckon with a self split loose from ordinary time and space.
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Also known as The Plattner, Plattner, Mr. Plattner, Mr. Gottfried Plattner
First appearance: The Plattner Story
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The protagonist, a schoolmaster who disappears for nine days after an explosion and returns with his left and right sides transposed.
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Plattner belongs to the small, unremarkable world of schoolmasters and provincial routine, the sort of man whose life offers no obvious purchase for the marvellous. Yet his experience of a strange dislocation leaves him…
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